Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 22:58:44 -0400 From: Matt Penna <mdp1261@ritvax.isc.rit.edu> To: Adrian.vandeVen@intervet.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sound server and 386 sx Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.2.20020411224712.02071680@vmspop.isc.rit.edu> In-Reply-To: <16DA86BA6F96D5119B8000508B12378F20DBEF@inbexc4.inb.intra>
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At 01:38 PM 4/11/02 +0200, Ven, AWE, van de (Adrian) wrote: >i recently found an old 386 sx with 1mb ram and 40md hd. hopefully i can >upgrade to 4 or 5 mb ram and bung in two network (isa) cards. is it possible >to install freebsd on this as a firewall / router? i have a private network >with 3 or 4 pc's behind it, all of which will have to have internet, mail >and file sharing. >how about these 1 floppy linux versions? any use? I can't speak to the usefulness of those Linux distributions, but that machine will need a little bit of a boost if you're going to run FreeBSD on it. 4 to 5MB of memory will probably be fine if you're doing nothing on the box but NAT and packet filtering, but the install program for modern versions of FreeBSD will not work with that amount of memory. You need to put in 16MB for the installation; it may be possible to install with less, but attempting that will have unpredictable results. Also, the hard disk is a bit small. Even selecting a minimal install, the base system may not fit - to say nothing of the extra space required for compilation. FreeBSD is a very small system, but it's not *that* small. :) >i'm also looking for some software so that i can play mp3's from my server >(connected to my stereo), but launced from a differant pc (without >soundcard). this because i have an mp3 server connected to my stereo, but i >want to be able to start them from anywhere over the network. A similar discussion came up a few months ago on the openbsd-misc mailing list. You can review that thread here: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=100556671809572&w=2 There was a followup a short time later from one of the posters, which you can read here: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=100575398719914&w=2 Hope you find what you're looking for! I'll be pursuing a similar project in the near future, it seems. Please let us know how it went when your system is up and running. Matt -- Matt Penna mdp1261@rit.edu ICQ: 399825 S0ba on AOLIM "The trouble with computers, of course, is that they're very sophisticated idiots." -Dr. Who To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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